This New Year, as most Jews enter sanctuaries with the push of a button, let’s travel there fueled by clean, pure, renewable Jewish energy.

Spiritual pilgrimages prompt introspection even as one beholds new terrains as disparate as Italy and Croatia, Germany and Poland.

Unmasking ourselves and living our truth is a core lesson of Purim as well as a tenet of diversity, especially in regards to inclusion of the LGBTQ community.